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Wildfires in Selenga

Selenga, Sierra Leone: 14 fires since 2016 burned 12,150 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 67 % · 30 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 73 % · 20 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 70 % · 29 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 72 % · 28 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

12,150
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
14
fires
97
km²

How many times has Selenga burned?

Selenga has burned 14 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Niawa Lenga fire, March 2026, with 3,502 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,150 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,144 hectares, 73 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
14
fires
8
years with fire
12,150
cumulative ha
7,144
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Sierra Leone →

Fires that entered Selenga

  1. 3,502 ha Niawa Lenga fire, March 2026 36% of the municipality · 20,541 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 135 ha Valunia fire, 14 March 2026 1.4% of the municipality · 1,394 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 781 ha Selenga fire, April 2025 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 1,435 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 584 ha Gbo fire, April 2024 6.0% of the municipality · 1,344 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 499 ha Valunia fire, 15 April 2022 5.1% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 693 ha Selenga fire, 10 April 2022 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 1,174 ha Selenga fire, 10 April 2022 where it started 12% of the municipality · 1,282 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 169 ha Valunia fire, March 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 101 ha Valunia fire, 12 March 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 1,221 ha Selenga fire, 14 April 2018 where it started 13% of the municipality · 1,341 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,179 ha Selenga fire, 3 April 2018 where it started 12% of the municipality · 1,171 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 4 ha Niawa Lenga fire, 27 March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,572 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 1,435 ha Selenga fire, March 2016 where it started 15% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 673 ha Niawa Lenga fire, 26 March 2016 6.9% of the municipality · 4,224 ha in total · 15 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/openAfrica, geoBoundaries (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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